William aechie smith



W. A. SMITH.

POCKET BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAY29, 1918.

1 3@5 5@9. Patented June 3, 1919.

WITNESSES VTILLIAM ARCHIE SMITH, OIF OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON.

POCKET-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented me a, rate.

Application filed May 29, 1918. Serial No. 237,286.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Olympia, in the county of Thurston and State ofWashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in pocketbooks, and has for its object toprovide a book of the character specified, formed from a single piece offlexible material, as for instance leather stitched together only at theside edges, and wherein three compartments are provided, a largecompartment for bills, and two small compartments for coin and the like.

Tn the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the book open,

Figs. 2 and 3 are sections on the lines 22 and 3-3, respectively of Fig.1, each view looking in the direction of the arrows adjacent to theline, and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the blank from which the book is formed.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a modified construction.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the improved book is formedfrom the blank shown in Fig. 4 and of any suitable material, thedimensions of the blank depending upon the size'desired for thecompleted book.

The blank is formed from a strip of material having near each end atransversely extending notch or recess 1 which divides the blank into amain or body portion 2 and end flaps 3, each of the end flaps beingconnected to the body-portion at one side edge of the strip, by a narrowtongue 4.

It will be noticed that the notches 1 extend from opposite side edges ofthe strip, and that the tongue 4 which connects one flap to the body isat the opposite side edge from the tongue that connects the other flapto the body.

The notches or recesses 1 are formed by two cuts from one side edge, thecuts being substantially parallel, and near the other side edge thesetwo cuts are connected by a third cut at right angles to the said cuts.

After the blank has been so formed,- it folded upon itself at pointsindicated by the dotted lines' 5 which are removed from the adjacentnotches or recesses 4 a distance corresponding to the width of the endflaps 3.

Upon these lines the blank is folded, the ends being folded over uponthe body with each flap 3 beneath that portion between the notch l andthe adjacent line 5 at the opposite end of the strip. After being sofolded, the blank is stitched in this folded condition at each sideedge, the stitches being indicated at 6, andithe book is completed.

There is now provided a long compartment or bill fold extending the fulllength of the book for currency, and this compartment being'adjacent tothe outer face of the book when folded, and two small compartments forcoin and the like adjacent to the inner surface of the book when folded.

It will be observed that the body of the blank has a lengthapproximately equal to four times the width of an end flap. That is, theend flaps having an aggregate Width one-half that of the length of thebody. The strip is folded into three folds, with the end flaps betweenthe folds or forming the intermediate fold.

The improved book is as before stated made from a single piece ofleather, and has four compartments, with no metal clasps or hinges towear the pockets or to scratch other articles in the same pocket. Thebook remains closed by folding, no bands or connections being required.I

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Fig. 5, the blank from whichthe book 7 is formed in exactly the same manner as that shown in Fig. 4,the only difference beingin the outline of the blank. The corners of theblank in the construction of Fig. 5 are rounded so that the book whenunfolded has a substantially oval outline. The tongues 8 connect the twoportionsof the book in the same manner as the tongues 4 of Fig. 1.

I claim:

1. A device of the character specified formed from a strip of flexiblematerial having a notch near each end extending from one side edge tonear the other side edge and forming a body and two flaps connected tothe body by narrow tongues at one side edge of the strip, the saidtongues being at opposite side edges of the strip, and the aggregatewidth of the flaps being equal to half the length of the body, saidblank being folded into three folds, with the end flaps forming theintermediate fold.

2. A pocketbook consisting of a strip of flexible material having itsends bent over the said folds to be placed beneath the inupon the bodyto form three folds of apnermost portion of the other of the sandproximately the same length, each of the folds.

two end portions being slitted from one side lVILLIAM ARCHIE SMITH. 5edge to near the other and the slits of the Witnesses:

two folds extending in opposite directions J. S. MAGILL,

to permit the outermost portion of each of CATHARINE S. STEPHENS.

